Everyday Mind Reading: Understanding What Other People Think and Feel

Rating:
Summary: A brilliant book
Review: Bill Ickes has written a brilliant book in such a way that ordinary mortals can immediately grasp its content and never be bored.

The book explores in rich and fascinating detail human empathy. The book is written in a way that successfully blend the subtlety of observation with the rigor of experimentation and excites the reader at almost every page. It is both an outstanding scientific and literary achievement.

This book is also full of surprises. There are several important aspects related to empathic understanding that the research done by Ickes and collaborators demonstrates against our conventional wisdom.

I learned a lot reading this book. And I strongly recommend everyone interested in social cognition, human relationships, whether you are involved in academic research or simply intrigued by how and why we come to understand others to do the same.